Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 19:56:32 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@best.com> Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: connect() bug found and fixed (uninitialized pointer) Message-ID: <199506090256.TAA00249@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jun 95 19:16:58 -0701." <199506090217.TAA13416@shell1.best.com>
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> In case Dima didn't get this off to you, there's a bug in > netinet/tcp_usrreq.c: tcp_connect()... the ifaddr is left > uninitialized in the case where in_pcbladdr() fails. The fix > is to check the error code from in_pcbladdr() and to return > it rather then fall through to the remaining code if it comes > back non-zero. > > I stuck a printf() in there to catch the condition as well just to > see how often it occured... got about a hit every 10 minutes > on our (very busy) FTP/WWW server from ftpd. Interesting...I'll have a look. Want to send me a diff for how you think it should be fixed? > Gotta quick question for you guys too: Is it safe to create > UFS partitions greater then 2GB ? Yes. Walnut Creek's news server has a 9GB drive (w/single partition) for it's spool/news, and has been working fine for a month or more. -DG
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